Schedule of Events (in Auditorium):
1:00 p.m.
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Welcome and opening remarks |
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
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"Down the Great Unknown"
One-man play featuring the life of John Wesley Powell and his personal and scientific accounts of the first expedition down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869. Starring Earll Kingston. |
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
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Possible second showing of "Down the Great Unknown," if needed. |
List of Exhibits (open from noon to 5 p.m.):
Reception area
- 125 years of USGS Geographic Science
- USGS Geography Discipline
Long Hall
- Framed posters about selected research projects by the Western Region Coastal & Marine Geology Team
- Rex Sanders, Laura Torresan, Bruce Rogers
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- A Clarence King gallery--the U.S. Geological Survey's first director
- Liz Colvard
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- How contaminated is the seafloor off Los Angeles?
- Homa J. Lee, Marlene Noble, Brian Edwards, Jinping Xu, Lori Hibbeler
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- Using seafloor photography and mapping techniques to characterize marine benthic habitats
- Brian Edwards, Peter Dartnell, Henry Chezar
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- Saltwater intrusion in Los Angeles area coastal aquifers
- Brian Edwards, Daniel Ponti, Kenneth Ehman, John Tinsley, Eric Reichard
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- Sedimentation and bathymetry changes in south San Francisco Bay: 1858-1983
- Amy Foxgrover, Shawn Higgins, Melissa Ingraça, Bruce Jaffe, Richard Smith
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- Mineral weathering and hydrology of marine terraces in Santa Cruz County, CA
- Jorie Schulz
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- From many to one: usSEABED shows us the seafloor
- Jane Reid, Nadine Golden
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- Digital mosaic of southern Molokai from historical aerial photographs
- Pat S. Chavez, Jr., Jo-Ann Isbrecht, Miguel G. Velasco, Michael E. Field
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- GPS current drifters used to track Hawaiian coral spawning
- Curt Storlazzi, Tom Reiss, Gerry Hatcher
Atrium
- USGS Coral Reef Studies
- Susie Cochran-Marquez
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- Coral Reef Game
- Susie Cochran-Marquez
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- Parke Snavely, Jr.--Memories of a "Geofacilitator Extraordinaire"
- Bruce Rogers
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- Man-made changes to the floor of San Francisco Bay
- John Chin
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- NOAA Fisheries Santa Cruz Lab
- Lisa Wooninck
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- History wall--Photographs of vessels used by the USGS Coastal & Marine Geology Program
- Dennis Mann
Far Hall
- A model for reconstructing the history of sediment deposition in San Pablo Bay between 1856 and 1983
- Shawn Higgins, Richard Smith, Christopher C. Fuller, Bruce Jaffe
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- Interdisciplinary science in restoration of south San Francisco Bay salt ponds
- John Takekawa, Keith Miles, Nicole Athearn
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- Suisun Bay and Delta bathymetry: production of a 1-meter grid
- Richard Smith, Amy Foxgrover, Peter Smith
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- Climate forcing of estuarine geomorphology: simulation approaches and initial results
- N.K. Ganju, D.H. Schoellhamer, M.A. Lionberger
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- Desalinization, erosion, and tidal changes following the breaching of Napa salt pond 3
- K. Swanson, G.G. Shellenbarger, D.H. Schoellhamer, N.K. Ganju, N. Athearn, P. Buchanan
East Hall
- From strawberry fields to the ozone layer: the methyl bromide story
- Laurence G. Miller, Shaun M. Baesman, Ronald S. Oremland
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- Discovery of methane gas hydrate from a mud volcano offshore Los Angeles: effects on sediments and biota
- Jim Hein, Brandie McIntyre
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- Exciting new discoveries of submarine hydrothermal systems, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, west Pacific
- Jim Hein, Brandie McIntyre
Computer Lab
- Flythrough display of Moloka‘i coral reef bathymetry
- Joshua Logan
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- Virtual tsunami!
- Eric Geist
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- The future of tsunami research at the USGS
- Bruce Jaffe, Eric Geist, Guy Gelfenbaum, Robert Peters
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- Modern and paleotsunami deposits
- Robert Peters, Bruce Jaffe, Guy Gelfenbaum
Middle Hall
- Sediment yield from coastal landslides and active slope distribution along the Big Sur coast, Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties, CA
- Cheryl Hapke, Krystal Green
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- Coastal cliff erosion rates along the Big Sur coast, Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties, CA
- Cheryl Hapke, Krystal Green
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- Santa Cruz satellite imagery: oblique view of the Monterey Bay area showing onland topography and faults
- Gerald Bawden, Sandra Schmitz
West Hall
- Monterey Canyon: What happens at the downstream end?
- William R. Normark, Jane A. Reid, Andrea Fildani
Seminar Room and Lunchroom
- Understanding and predicting large-scale coastal change
- Peter Ruggiero, Giles Lesser, Guy Gelfenbaum, Jodi Eshleman
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- Ocean Beach coastal processes study
- Patrick Barnard
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- Create your own 3D topographic model
- Alan Allwardt, Parker Allwardt
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- Looking for a needle in a haystack—Search for missing instruments in the Monterey Submarine Canyon
- Jingping Xu, Marlene Noble, Charlie Paull, Leslie Rosenfeld
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- USGS Internet resources: a guided tour of USGS Web sites
- Alan Allwardt
Photogrammetry Lab
- 3D display of landslides along the Big Sur coast using photogrammetry
- Cheryl Hapke, Krystal Green
Auditorium Hall
- Strike-slip along the San Gregorio fault: Santa Cruz and Point Reyes, once close, have drifted apart
- Rick Stanley, Paul Lillis
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- Submarine geologic hazards: examples from Santa Barbara to San Pedro, CA
- Michael A. Fisher, H. Gary Greene, Ray Sliter
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- How seismic-reflection data are collected and interpreted
- Ray Sliter, Jamie Conrad, Holly Ryan
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- How we use seismic-reflection data to map faults off the coast of southern California
- Ray Sliter, Jamie Conrad, Holly Ryan
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- Tapestry of Time and Terrain jigsaw puzzle
- David Howell, GeoKids
Lab Hall
- Development of a time-series method for estimating seepage from streambed thermal records: examples from California coastal streams
- Christine E. Hatch, Andrew T. Fisher, James E. Constantz
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- Characterizing saline waters with isotopes in the coastal alluvial aquifers of Monterey Bay, CA
- Randy Hanson
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- Geohydrology of recharge and seawater intrusion in the Pajaro Valley, Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties, CA
- Randy Hanson
Sediment Lab
- Precipice of survival: the southern sea otter
- Alisha Kage, Gena Bentall, Tim Tinker, Christine Alfano
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- Adventures in geochemistry
- Bob Rosenbauer, Fran Hostettler, Renée Takesue, Keith Kvenvolden
Instrument Lab
- How healthy is that plant? Measuring chlorophyll fluorescence
- Greg Piniak
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- The secret life of seagrass: flow, sediment transport, and Zostera marina
- Jessie Lacy
Third Lab
- Ripples and dunes
- Carissa Carter, David Rubin
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- Digital grain-size analysis using handheld "eyeball" camera
- Jodi Harney
Mechanical Shop
- Paleoseismology: digging for earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault
- Tom Fumal
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- 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake studies and probabilities of future earthquakes in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay area
- USGS Earthquake Hazards Team
Auditorium
- 125 years of science for America
- U.S. Geological Survey
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